In her column on how soon-to-be-State Senator Dan Patrick is affecting the debate in Austin over the recently-passed business tax plan, Kristin Mack mentions what should be the third-highest profile race, at least in Harris County, this year: the battle in House District 134 between incumbent Martha Wong and Democratic challenger Ellen Cohen. Patrick called […]
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And now for the other high-profile race for this cycle: SurveyUSA has released a poll that has caused a fair amount of angst among Democrats: If the election for Governor of Texas were today, and you were standing in the voting booth right now, who would you vote for? Democrat Chris Bell? Independent “Kinky” Friedman? […]
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I know I just said that I want to bring some attention to races other than the one in Congressional District 22, but what can I say? There’s a lot of material to work with there. Via Daily Kos, I see that CQ Politics has rated the now-open seat race in CD22 as having “No […]
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Hi. My name is Charles, and I blog about politics. I got started back in January of 2002, when the blog world was a lot smaller, more conservative, and almost completely done by amateurs. I just wanted an outlet to write on a regular basis, and after stumbling across a friend’s blog while surfing one […]
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